Shadow1980 said:
"Won't someone think of the fictional children!"
The game is arguably creepy as hell (though as far as I'm aware of there's no nudity or sex), and Valve is within their rights to decline to post any game for sales on their platform, but, as some have seriously suggested, to argue that people ought to be prosecuted for buying a game that has cartoon characters in it... what the fuck? Literally nobody is being hurt by this. Even actual hentai games, including ones with sexual violence and/or loli/shota content don't hurt anyone. The characters are not human beings, so no real abuse of actual humans occurred during production. Equating consumption of loli hentai to actual acts of pedophilia is like equating acts of video game violence to actual murder. A lot of you have probably played games where your player character has committed violent crimes, even up to terrorism and war crimes depending on the game, and we've all racked up an impressive body count, and I'm sure you don't think you or anyone else should be punished in real life for it.
I tend to take as absolutist of a stance as possible when it comes to freedom of speech. Unless something causes actual, demonstrable harm to someone, it should not be banned. That basically means that child pornography, false advertisement, perjury, incitement, and threats should obviously be criminalized, and defamation should arguably be subject to civil liabilities. But video games or cartoons or comics that have creepy content? Fine by me. You do you. You aren't hurting anybody by playing/watching/reading it, and nobody was hurt by the production of it. People simply being offended or creeped out by something is not sufficient grounds for the government to ban it.
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But games like this can affect people who are sexually attracted to children. It can for example lead them to think that "it doesn't hurt when I only take a look". And then they start to harass children by staring at them. And releasing games that sexualize children on Steam would mean a huge "normalisation" of the issue, which would be really bad. I am sure there are other, not so mainstream ways, to access this kind of material.
